The folks at Virtual Computer (see The Launch of Virtual Computer, Inc. andVirtual Computer NxTop Beta) have launched NxTop, a desktop virtualization product that aims to bring some order to what ...

Alex Vasilevsky, CTO of Virtual Computer, posted a tweet proclaiming that a milestone in the development of NxTop the other day (see The Launch of Virtual Computer, Inc. for more information). Since I ...

Windows Virtual PC creates virtual disks for each guest operating system created in the application. Virtual PC stores these disks in individual virtual hard disk -- or VHD -- files. To enable Windows ...

Google is rolling out a beta version of PC Connect, a free first-party virtual desktop app for Android XR. With the app, ...

Microsoft working on G5 compatibility for next release As previously reported, the current iteration of Virtual PC (6.1) is incompatible with the now-shipping Power Macintosh G5s. A Microsoft ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. The software industry is learning that virtual machines ...

JPC is a pure Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals. And it can run anywhere that has a JVM, whether x86, RISC, mobile-phone or set-top box. It has been developed since August ...

When Microsoft took over development of Virtual PC, after buying Connectix at the beginning of 2003, it promised Mac users a reason to celebrate. With Microsoft’s intimate knowledge of Windows, the ...

Windows 7 is already a big hit for Microsoft, according to market-share tracker Net Applications, which shows it rising past all the extant versions of Linux and Windows except Vista and XP and into ...

Late last year, we told you about the Chungus 2, a virtual computer that was “built” within the blocky world of Minecraft. The initial processor design could play super-basic games like Snake on a ...

In our house, we use Virtual PC for all the wrong reasons. The main user is my 15-year-old son, Matt, who uses it to play PC games on his Mac. Perhaps the best praise I can give to VPC 4.0 is that ...

Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with ...